The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
We feel on social media that we can speak to each other in a certain way. In politics we treat each other… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice. — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“We would all like to see a perfect moral state with no government being necessary at all. That is not reality. To… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“He died a suspicious death. But only because he was a politician, and everything he did was suspicious.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U.… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
There's tremendous pressure, if you're in that [goverment] system, to be involved and be interested and to care about it. There's no… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may… — Charles H. Percy Copy Share Image
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have… — Els Borst Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing—and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war. — John Hospers Copy Share Image
The Congress is dividing the country on the lines of caste and regions. We need a stable government to put the country… — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Obama's Plan = 'Bitches get stitches.' Romney's Plan = 'Bitches get stitches assuming that bitch can afford healthcare.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked… — Brian Baird Copy Share Image
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not. — David Dimbleby Copy Share Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image